Terms Used In CFR > Title 20 > Chapter III > Part 416 > Subpart S - Interim Assistance Provisions

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Case law: The law as laid down in cases that have been decided in the decisions of the courts.
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• fiscal year: means the annual accounting period or, if no closing date has been adopted, the calendar year ending on December 31. See 17 CFR 240.12b-2
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• predecessor: means a person the major portion of the business and assets of which another person acquired in a single succession or in a series of related successions in each of which the acquiring person acquired the major portion of the business and assets of the acquired person. See 17 CFR 240.12b-2
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• registrant: means an issuer of securities with respect to which a registration statement or report is to be filed. See 17 CFR 240.12b-2
• share: means a share of stock in a corporation or unit of interest in an unincorporated person. See 17 CFR 240.12b-2
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.